Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last version of Windows Server to support the Intel Itanium architecture.  SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010 are also the last versions to support Itanium.  Current support for Itanium remains unchanged.  Each of these products represent the state...

By: Netanel Ben-Shushan , CSA/JNCIA-SSL/MCP/MCSA/MCSE/MCTS/MCITP Abstract This article will help you to learn everything that you need to know as a systems administrator (or SysAdmin) about this protocol and what can you do with him.   What's DHCP? And why it's recommended to use it? Imagine...

My name is Crissy House and I am the Windows Server Operations Manager here at Microsoft. I handle a lot of our customer and partner questions and wanted to provide an update on upcoming support lifecycle changes for Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 and help clarify some misperceptions of...

Microsoft has been quick to act on informing IT pros and the general public on the security issue in nearly every NT-based Windows version out in the wild however more details are still lacking. The bug concerns the Server service found in all NT-based Windows OS responsible for communication between...

A Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) hotfix rollup package is available for Windows Server 2003. If you are running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2), this hotfix rollup package resolves the following issues • If you do not have to have SNP features in Windows Server 2003, you can install hotfix 948496...

This update adds support for the following Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher suites in the Schannel.dll module for Windows Server 2003: • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA AES128-SHA • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA AES256-SHA Note These cipher suites are based on the RC4 algorithm. OpenSSL supports...

The Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Assessment Configuration Pack for Federal Information Security Management Act was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the Federal Information Security...

The Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Assessment Configuration Pack for European Union Data Protection Directive was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the European Union Data Protection...

Transporter Suite contains a set of tools for migrations from both Lotus Domino Servers, and generic IMAP/POP sources. For Lotus Domino the suite contains a set of tools for Directory and Free/Busy interoperability between Lotus Domino 6 or 7 and Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2003 Active Directory...

The Administration Tools Pack allows administrators to install the Windows Server 2003 SP2 management tools onto a computer running Windows XP Professional or a Windows Server 2003 family operating system to perform remote server management functions. This is the final version of the Administration Tools...